Solid Waste and Recycling Services RFP (City of Lake Forest and City of Laguna Hills)

The Cities of Lake Forest and Laguna Hills (“the Cities”) are seeking proposals from qualified firms to provide municipal solid waste and divertible materials collection, processing, disposal, and transportation services. The two contiguous Cities are using a ‘joint’ RFP process to gain procurement process efficiencies and, when the contracts become effective, to maximize cross-jurisdictional routing efficiencies to reduce costs to ratepayers. Section 6 of this RFP includes the contract that each City plans to award to the selected proposer. The contracts are “mirror images” of each other. The Cities envision selecting the same proposer and each City awarding a contract to that selected Proposer.

The Cities are requesting proposals to provide collection, transportation and disposal of municipal solid waste and the collection, transportation, processing and diversion of recyclable materials, yard trimmings, food scraps, and other materials for an eight (8) year period beginning July 1, 2025 and terminating June 30, 2033 with the possibility of two (2) one-year extensions based on the selected Proposer’s attainment of performance measures.

The RFP can be accessed from the following link: https://procurement.opengov.com/portal/lakeforestca/projects/63049

Release Project Date: December 14, 2023

Pre-Proposal Meeting (Mandatory): December 18, 2023, 10:00am

In the Conference Center of Lake Forest Civic Center located at 100 Civic Center Dr., Lake Forest, CA 92630

Pre-proposal Requests for Clarification: January 17, 2024, 5:00pm

Proposal Submission Deadline: February 23, 2024, 3:00pm

ATTN: City Clerk
City of Lake Forest
100 Civic Center Drive
Lake Forest, California 92630

Anticipated Final Selection: June 25, 2024

Anticipated Project Start : July 1, 2025